Martial law melodrama : Lino Brocka's cinema politics /

Martial law melodrama : Lino Brocka's cinema politics /

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"Lino Brocka (1939-1991) was one of Asia and the Global South's most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of genre movies, an internationally acclaimed auteur of social films, a pioneer of queer cinema, and an outspoken critic of Ferdinand Marcos�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Capino, José B (Author), Capino, José B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Capino, José B (Author), Capino, José B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Brocka, Lino, > 1939-1991 > Criticism and interpretation
Brocka, Lino > 1939-1991
Brocka, Lino, > 1939-1991
1900-1999
20th century
Motion pictures > Political aspects > Philippines > 20th century
Criticism and interpretation
Melodrama > Film
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Political aspects
Politischer Film
Philippinen
Philippines
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Table of Contents:
  • The country and the city : Social melodrama and the symptoms of authoritarian rule
  • "A thoroughly different kind of mother" : Surrogate autocrats, restive youth, and the maternal melodrama
  • The melodramatics of crime : Film noir in the twilight of martial law
  • Tales of unrelenting misfortunes : Family melodrama and the 1980s economic crisis
  • Men in revolt : Two experiments in political cinema
  • A dirty affair : Political melodramas of democratization
  • Picturing "a faggot's dilemma" : Sexuality, politics, and a commerce in queer movies
  • Coda : Three non-endings
  • The country and the city : social melodrama and the symptoms of authoritarian rule
  • "A thoroughly different kind of mother" : surrogate autocrats, restive youth, and the maternal melodrama
  • The melodramatics of crime : film noir in the twilight of martial law
  • Tales of unrelenting misfortunes : family melodrama and the 1980s economic crisis
  • Men in revolt : two experiments in political cinema
  • A dirty affair : political melodramas of democratization
  • Picturing "a faggot's dilemma" : sexuality, politics, and a commerce in queer movies
  • Coda : three non-endings
  • The country and the city : social melodrama and the symptoms of autocratic rule
  • "A thoroughly different kind of mother" : surrogate autocrats, restive youth, and the maternal melodrama
  • The melodramatics of crime : film noir in the twilight of martial law
  • Tales of unrelenting misfortunes : family melodrama and the 1980s economic crisis
  • Men in revolt : two experiments in political cinema
  • A dirty affair : political melodramas of democratization
  • Picturing "a faggot's dilemma" : sexuality, politics, and a commerce in queer movies
  • Coda : three non-endings
  • The country and the city: social melodrama and the symptoms of authoritarian rule
  • "A thoroughly different kind of mother": surrogate autocrats, restive youth, and the maternal melodrama
  • The melodramatics of crime: film noir in the twilight of martial law
  • Tales of unrelenting misfortunes: family melodrama and the 1980s economic crisis
  • Men in revolt: two experiments in political cinema
  • A dirty affair: political melodramas of democratization
  • Picturing "a faggot's dilemma": sexuality, politics, and a commerce in queer movies
  • Coda: three non-endings

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